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Customer Review
Charlie
2.0
Critical Functions FailReviewed in the United States on May 2, 2019
I really like this dash cam in general, but a few glitches make it worthless. So far the mount has been great and never fallen off the dash. The video quality is good for this price range and there are a decent amount of setting. Parking mode functions well, but may be triggered by any movement including trees and bushes. This can quickly fill up your memory card and overwrite other non-protected videos, just something to consider and monitor on your camera with your usage. The size of the camera is great and I am happy with the look and feel of the build quality. For my uses, it was pretty much plug and play other than clearing out the memory card every two weeks or so.My problems with this camera have been the software glitches. Want to turn the camera off? Lol no. It will turn itself back on immediately, even when unplugged. There are times when I know the parking mode will be active constantly, like when I'm street parked in the middle of Philadelphia, and I don't want to overwrite previous non-protected recordings or otherwise fill up the memory card. Even when I want to bring the camera inside and review the footage, it ends up recording being taken down, carried inside, and sitting on the counter for hours ultimately overwriting the footage that I was hoping to review. Want to manually lock a recording? Sure! Except its going to get overwritten regardless. There have been at least a dozen times where I have tried to manually lock a recording and it showed the locked icon on the screen and all looked well, but when I pulled the memory card a week later none of them were there. The recordings that lock based on the G sensors seem to be actually protected. I have updated the software and everything and it started behaving a little differently but never improved on these issues.My newest issue, and I am not sure what is going on, is that the lock icon comes up ALL THE TIME on the screen and I stop the recording and start it again so the card doesn't get filled up with useless clips that are protected but the camera will show the same shortly after. I live in an area with many potholes, and I know that many of them can activate the G sensor but this does not seem to be the case with any of these new locked videos.Is this a good budget camera? I really want to say yes. If you get the biggest memory card possible these overwrite issues will not be as noticeable because you will have more time to offload the recordings before they are overwritten. Is it worth buying a cheaper camera and having to spend more on a memory card than just getting a better camera? I don't think so. This does what I need it to do on the day to day. If you record something that you need to keep, take the card out before it can be overwritten. Don't trust that turning off the camera will keep your recordings from being overwritten. My concern is that if there was ever a reason that I couldn't do this right away, such as a serious accident where I am incapacitated, then the footage is likely useless.
